The pontiff said that the solution to the problem lies in two states’ internationally guaranteed status.
The Middle East conflict is at the center of the general audience that Pope Francis held this Wednesday in Saint Peter’s Square. Shortly before, the Pope had the opportunity to meet with European delegations of relatives of Israeli hostages still in the hands of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian families whose relatives are reportedly detained in state prisons. Jewish.
As the Vatican spokesperson explained, these were meetings of an exclusively humanitarian nature.
The pope wanted to express his spiritual closeness to those who suffer and, as he recalled during the audience, he asked to pray for peace.
In the past, the sovereign pontiff had explained that every individual, whatever their origin or religion, is sacred in the eyes of God.
The Pope has already explained several times that the release of the hostages is, in his opinion, a fundamental step towards the end of the war and declared that the solution to the problem lies in two states, two of the peoples enjoying internationally guaranteed status.
